Ransomware
Statistics and intelligence on ransomware attacks, trends, and prevention strategies across global organizations.
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62% of organizations now use immutable backups.
Exploited vulnerabilities also contributed to 12% of attacks in 2025.
61% believe that AI has significantly increased the overall risk of ransomware attacks.
77% of respondents view AI-driven phishing as a serious and emerging threat, up from 66.9 % in 2024.
82% of organizations have implemented a Disaster Recovery (DR) Plan.
Only 13% of ransomware victims paid the ransom in 2025, which is a decrease from 16.3% in 2024.
46% of organizations report having ransomware insurance in 2025, a decrease from 54.6% in 2024.
Ransomware remained the most impactful cybercrime tool despite a reported decrease of 11% compared to the previous ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) report.
Stolen credentials were involved in approximately 25% of ransomware attacks in 2025, up from an estimated 20% in 2024.
42% of security leaders admit that the training provided is still inadequate or too superficial.
Phishing and email-based attacks dropped to 46% of all incidents in 2025, down from 52.3% in 2024.
74% of organizations report providing employee training to prevent ransomware, though this figure is a drop from 81.3 % in 2024.
In 2025, 24% of organizations reported being the victim of a ransomware attack (vs 18.6% reported in 2024).
Threat actors are diversifying their entry points, leading to 26% of ransomware incidents involving compromised endpoints.
Manufacturing faced several ransomware incidents, generating cyber insurance claims averaging over $1 million in severity.
Average initial ransom demand (based on all cases with ransom demand) in 2020: $11.25 million.
Between 2019 and 2023, manufacturing experienced large losses primarily from ransomware (86.7%), followed by other causes (10.0%) and data breaches (3.3%).
In 2023, 88.9% of backups were not affected by ransomware.
In 2022, organizations took an average of 43 days to restore operations after a ransomware attack.
Between 2019 and 2023, retail experienced large losses primarily from ransomware (50.0%), followed by other causes (30.0%) and data breaches (20.0%).